Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust. It usually collects in a magma chamber beneath a volcano, and can then be injected into cracks in rocks or issue out of volcanoes in eruptions.

Understanding how magma behaves could help researchers forecast volcanic eruptions Madison Goldberg A team of researchers compiled data from volcanoes around the world, including Cleveland Volcano in ...

When engineers began drilling into an Icelandic volcano named Krafla, things took a turn for the weird. The team’s objective was to approach the boundary of a magma reservoir 2.5 miles below the ...

Iceland, a land famous for its resplendent waters, glacial scenery, and bubbling hot springs, is not usually top of mind when it comes to breaking speed records. But the chilly island nation in the ...

Defensive walls that were bolstered since the first eruption stopped some of the flow, but several buildings were consumed by the lava, and land in the town sank by as much as 4½ feet because of the ...